Panel to offer personal, professional COVID-19 vaccine perspectives among Blacks, Latinos
Updated Mar 01, 2021;
Posted Mar 01, 2021
Dr. Miguel Rodriguez is among the participants on a March 5 virtual panel offering personal and professional perspectives on COVID-19 vaccination among blacks and Latinos. A Holyoke Medical Center pulmonologist, he has cared for those with symptoms of coronavirus disease since the start of the pandemic in early 2019.
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Panelists — who include physicians as well as public health and social services experts from Latino and Black backgrounds — will discuss the COVD-19 vaccine during a virtual presentation Friday, March 5, noon to 1 p.m.
The Children’s Study Home, in partnership with the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts, is hosting the event that is viewed as an opportunity for people of color in particular to ask questions as cumulative national data shows them to have higher rates of hospitalization from COVID-19 than whites and lower rates of getting vaccinated for a variety of reasons.